After the sky darkened, everyone gathered in the open space down the slope.
Manager Wang, Cultivator Zhou, Li Yuan, plus two detective monks, a total of five people. Cultivator Feng and Lian Alchemist stayed behind Herb Garden.
Li Yuan shared out the Breath-Concealing Talisman that was made in the afternoon.
Breath-Concealing Spirit Liquid also divided it, and his breath was immediately suppressed.
The five people stood together, and the fluctuations in their spiritual power were nearly 70% to 80% weaker than before. They were almost invisible in the night wind.
Manager Wang pinned Law Artifact to his waist and swept around everyone.
"Let me be clear first. This information may not be true."
He lowered his voice and his voice was only loud enough for the people next to him to hear.
"The harassment before was just to consume our attention and energy. If the information this time was deliberately released to lure us out, and take advantage of Herb Garden's empty backhand to stab us, we would be passive."
He glanced in the direction of Herb Garden on the slope.
"So Herb Garden and Array I set to the highest alert. Feng the Second and Lian Alchemist stayed behind, and Array lit the signal smoke as soon as it sounded. When we saw the smoke outside, we immediately retreated, not willing to fight."
Everyone nodded.
"Let's go."
The five people went into the forest along the hillside to the north of Herb Garden.
The mountain forest at night was extremely dark, with the tree crowns blocking most of the moonlight. The gravel and dead leaves underfoot occasionally made a small crunching sound. The young exploring monk walked at the front to lead the way, his steps were light and fast, and he was obviously very familiar with the terrain in this area.
Manager Wang and Cultivator Zhou walked in the middle, followed by Li Yuan and the exploration monk who practiced Body Tempering.
The effects of Breath-Concealing Talisman and Spirit Liquid were combined, and the breath of the five people was suppressed to an extremely low level. Walking in the forest, they were almost like a group of mortals.
After traveling for a while, the terrain in the mountain forest began to change. The gentle slope turned into undulating low hills. The ravines between the low hills were narrow and deep. In some places, you had to turn sideways to squeeze through.
The team's speed slowed down.
The first few people stopped in front of a narrow ditch, waiting for the young scouting monk to go over first to confirm safety before following.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Li Yuan glanced at the investigating monk beside him.
This man walked very steadily along the way. His footsteps made no sound when he landed on the gravel. When he encountered a ravine, his body sank slightly, his center of gravity was lowered, and his movement over it was clean and neat.
It is different from the monks who rely purely on spiritual power Movement Method.
Li Yuan spoke, his voice low.
"Have you practiced the Body Tempering technique?"
The investigating monk turned his head and looked at him without denying it.
"Have some practice."
"Immortal?"
"Hmm."
Li Yuan was silent for two breaths and asked the next question.
"Blood-Qi Heavenly Cycle What's going on?"
The exploring monk paused slightly.
It took a few breaths before he spoke, and his voice was very low.
"Blood-Qi Heavenly Cycle, let Qi and Blood travel through the meridians like spiritual power for a complete week."
He raised his arm slightly and made an empty line in front of him.
"Spiritual power travels around the sky, comes out from the Dantian, travels along the meridians throughout the body, and then returns to the Dantian. Qi and Blood travels around the sky in the same way. It comes out from the Blood-Qi Sea, walks along the meridians, and then returns to the Blood-Qi Sea."
He took his hand back.
"The difference is that spiritual power naturally flows in the meridians, because the meridians are originally used for spiritual power. Qi and Blood is different. Qi and Blood has to squeeze in through the meridians. Ordinary monks' meridians only leave channels for spiritual power, while Qi and Blood passes through blood vessels and fascia, and each of them goes its own way."
"If you want Qi and Blood to also pass through the meridians, you must expand the capacity of the meridians so that Qi and Blood and spiritual power can run inside at the same time."
Li Yuan nodded.
"Ordinary Cultivation Method can't do it?"
The exploring monk shook his head.
"It can't be done."
His tone was very certain.
"What ordinary Cultivation Method practices is Qi and Blood itself, strengthening muscles, fascia, organs, and bones. Qi and Blood has become stronger, stronger, and the body has become harder, but Qi and Blood always follows the path of blood. It does not touch the meridians."
He paused.
"If you want Qi and Blood to enter the meridians, you have to use the immortal way Body Refining Cultivation Method. The fundamental difference between the immortal way Body Refining Cultivation Method and the ordinary world is here. The way of the immortal way is to use spiritual power to guide Qi and Blood penetrates into the meridians and gradually adapts the meridians to the circulation of Qi and Blood. After cultivating to a certain level, Qi and Blood will be able to run together with the spiritual power in the major meridians, forming a weekly circulation."
"What realm?"
"Look at Cultivation Method." The exploring monk held out two fingers. "For ordinary immortality Body Refining Cultivation Method, practicing Major Accomplishment is almost enough. Of course, the more sufficient Qi and Blood, the wider the meridians, the lower the requirements. If there are enough Qi and Blood, it is possible to barely pass through the Zhoutian of the big meridians with a little bit of practice."
Li Yuan hummed and did not answer the call.
The weekly circulation of the major meridians.
He noticed a keyword.
This person is talking about the large meridians, main meridians and thick branch meridians. It does not include the small and micro meridians.
The permanent conditions of Foundation-Solidifying Grass are written about the weekly circulation throughout all the meridians.
All meridians, including micro meridians.
This requirement is more than one level higher than the ordinary Blood-Qi Heavenly Cycle.
Generally, if a monk can reach the Blood-Qi Heavenly Cycle of the major meridians, it is already very good. That is the level of Body Refining Cultivation Method Major Accomplishment of the Immortal Dao. What Foundation-Solidifying Grass requires is to Qi and Blood go through every meridian in the body, not even the micro meridians.
The difficulty has doubled several times.
Li Yuan did not continue to ask questions, and quickened his pace to keep up with the team in front.
The investigating monk didn't say much, and the two of them continued to move forward in silence.
After walking for another two-quarters of an hour, the team slowed down.
The young exploring monk leading the way raised his left hand, clenched his fist, and gestured towards the back.
Stop.
The five people stopped at the same time.
The young exploring monk knelt down, looked ahead for a few breaths, then turned his head and whispered.
"Arrived."
Li Yuan looked over his shoulder.
Ahead is a wide Valley. The moonlight leaks through the gaps in the clouds, illuminating a rough outline of the terrain at the entrance of the valley. The mountain walls on both sides are not high, with gentle slopes, and the valley bottom is scattered with large and small rocks and bushes.
The whole area is very large. It stretches for several miles from left to right, and there is no end in sight.
Li Yuan took Spirit Detection Disk out of the storage bag, poured spiritual power into it, and stretched the sensing range to the maximum.
The feedback on the disk came out.
Faint breath fluctuations.
Not just one or two strands, but a whole piece.
Within the entire Valley range, there are extremely weak Spiritual Qi fluctuations floating slowly everywhere. The concentration is very low, so low that it is almost undetectable if Spirit Detection Disk is not used. But it is extremely widely distributed, like a thin layer of fog spread on the bottom of the valley, spreading from the mouth of the valley to the depths.
It's not like the monk's aura. The monk's Spiritual Qi fluctuations have a core and a direction. These fluctuations have no clear source and seem to seep out from the ground.
It is not like the Spiritual Qi fluctuations of Demon Beast. Demon Beast. These fluctuations are extremely weak but very uniform.
Manager Wang also felt something strange. He raised the Spirit Detection Disk in his hand higher and frowned.
"There are fluctuations everywhere."
He spoke in a low voice and glanced at the bottom of the valley.
The young detective monk squatted in front and answered in a low voice.
"These fluctuations are not so obvious during the day. It may be that the Spiritual Qi concentration changes at night, or someone planted something in the valley."
The exploration monk who practiced the Body Tempering technique stood beside him, his eyes swept back and forth twice in several directions at the bottom of the valley, and he spoke in a deep voice.
"It's hard to tell if there's anyone there. The range is too large, and it's not enough to sense it from the outside."
Manager Wang was silent for a few breaths, then took Spirit Detection Disk back.
"Check separately."
He pointed to the mountain walls on both sides of the valley entrance.
"Group of two, explore along the mountain walls on both sides of the valley entrance. Don't go down to the bottom of the valley, walk up. Each group will stop after walking one mile. No matter what they find, they will not do anything until they come back to meet up."
He looked at Li Yuan.
"You and Old Zhao are in a group, go to the right."
Then he looked at the young exploring monk and Cultivator Zhou.
"You two go to the left. I'll wait at the mouth of the valley. If necessary, I'll pull back."
Cultivator Zhou nodded and walked towards the mountain wall on the left. The young exploring monk followed him, and the two figures quickly disappeared into the shadow of the bushes.
Manager Wang squatted down behind a large rock at the entrance of the valley, staring at the direction of the valley bottom.
Li Yuan took two steps towards the mountain wall on the right, and the exploration monk named Old Zhao by Manager Wang followed him, making no sound.
The two of them walked along the edge of the mountain wall on the right, heading towards the valley.
There were loose gravel and shrubs underfoot. Occasionally, there would be one or two small sounds when stepping on them, but they were mostly covered up by the night wind and the chirping of insects in the distance.
The moonlight appeared and disappeared above the head, and the weak Spiritual Qi fluctuations at the bottom of the valley continued to float within the Spirit Detection Disk's perception range.
After walking about a hundred feet, Li Yuan's pace slowed down.
He lifted Spirit Detection Disk and took another look.
The density of fluctuations is higher than that at the mouth of the valley.